[ipxe-devel] i350 igbvf.rom virtual function support
Michael Brown
mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Tue Apr 10 12:55:48 UTC 2012
On Thursday 05 Apr 2012 17:31:57 Erik Jacobson wrote:
> We need to PXE-boot igb virtual function interfaces. I was happy to find
> the igbvf.rom available for this use and it worked great on the 82576
> family.
>
> However, we also need to be able to PXE-boot igb virtual function
> interfaces hosted on an I350.
>
> The following change made this work for me. I was hoping you would consider
> including it in ipxe. If this change is incorrect and you have a different
> version you'd like me to test, I'd be happy to do that.
>
> PS: I don't have a network driver / boot rom background. So look
> carefully :)
Applied, with modifications:
http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/96a8c70
(Your patch redefined igbvf.rom as being for the i350, leaving no .rom that
would have the correct IDs for the original 82576. I changed it to use
"i350vf.rom" for the new PCI ID.)
Thanks!
Michael
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